just a general question.


any help is appreciated


thinking of singing up, but i want to know if i can use a hud before i do.

Good question!

It's not illegal to use a HUD on our software. Our hand histories aren't directly compatible with either program, but from what we know, there is a third party program that will allow you use those programs in our poker room.

We don't endorse this product, we don't guarantee this product, and we urge you to use this product at your own risk should you choose to do so. We don't have anything to do with this company, and will not be responsible for any harm to your computer that may arise from your use of this product.

Disclaimer aside, this forum is here to help 2+2ers, and this is what we know is out there for public consumption:

http://www.mergeconverter.com/

See you at the tables, good luck!

Seth, do you think you could get in touch with the Hold Em Manager guys and see if there's a way they can work on making HEM compatible with your software?

As far as we've been told, both PokerTracker and HEM are working on integrating Merge hand histories to be read in their software!

...and the day they do, I leave the network. I don't use it & don't want it used against me. I play at both Merge & Cake because they don't have/allow HUD support, Cake doesn't allow it.

It'll be a sad day when this happens. Either play the game like its meant to be played or don't play at all. Having a piece of software do all your "work" is just weak.

Thankfully live poker isn't going anywhere.

Hopefully all this tracking software/result database crap gets banned from all sites some day. Unfortunately, it wont happen because the site owners are greedy and they want the rake these players provide. They slowly destroy the community by having an edge on people they've never even seen or played with before thanks to hand grabbers.

Not allowing this type of software makes the field completely even and winning is based on SKILL & adjusting. There is ZERO skill in having a piece of software tell you exactly what situation you're in based on a players past actions. Its a joke.

Well the day you do,Im there.

lol.

I'm going to start calling u guys 3p"SAP"s
(3rd party Software Aided poker players)

Justifiy its use anyway you want, its still weaksauce.

http://www.mergeconverter.com/

bye

FWIW. HEM and poker tracker don't tell you what to do in any situation or tell you what situation your in. You just interpret the information. This is where the skill is. It doesn't do anything that you couldn't do yourself with pen and paper.

It is fine to choose site that don't allow real time HUDs but using them on sites that do allow if does not give you an unfair advantage as they are available to everyone.

RPM Poker is now HEM Compatible!

With the converter still or without?

HEM importer works without a converter. I don't usually use a HUD, and haven't tried one yet on RPM, so I can't say whether that works on RPM at all.

I just bought the converter a few months ago.

wait more info on this please~

do i really not need to use the converter anymore? if so, how do i get my HUD to display?

I just tested this out today and didn't get a HUD to show up. But I have been using the grid layout, so maybe that's the problem. I didn't do any debugging it at all because, like I said, I don't really use a HUD. All I really care about is that the hands get in so I can review them later.

If it doesn't work with individual windows I would try using the Table Finder feature in the Table Manager.

Good luck.

hud works on the site. got it to work last night!

You got the HEM hud work? Could you please write up a step-by-step instruction? Like
1) start HEM :-))
2) add RPM directory (i guess)
3) add Alias? (this is where i got lost, didnt work, need a newer HEM version?)

I'm a bit late, but when using the merge converter, after clicking auto-import on HEM, I had to use the Table Manager, click Table on the file menu, then click Table Finder. Use it to manually detect the tables and then the HUD will start. It was pretty annoying when multi-tabling, so hopefully now that HEM's beta supports Merge, it'll auto-detect tables and put up a HUD.

I was able to get the hud to work with rpm (same as kidlover did), but the hud never pops up with the right players so I have to right click and move it so the numbers are by the correct players (because I have preferred seating I'm sure)... but is there any option in hem that I can click so that I don't have to do this every time I sit at a table?

Yeah I have to do this every time, can't figure out how to set a default for the player positions. You have to right-click the table name in Table Manager, then use the arrows to rotate the stats till they're in the right spots. There doesn't seem to be an option in Table Manager to set a preferred seat, there may be in HEM itself.

hud options -> Seating preferences

You might have to play around with it a bit to get it to line up to your preferred seat.. and even then it's still not perfect, but I loaded up quite a few tables to test it out and I only remember 1 table having 2 names in the wrong spot... every other table was fine.

Allright now we have a HEM HUD. No need for mergeconverter. Just use the HEM 1.10 beta (download from their forums, there is a frequent poster with the link in his signature), install, add the RPM directory to auto import, auto import, and then use table finder, in there you have to
1) select the table Make sure it is highlighted blue, i forgot this step the first time.
2) use your mouse and move the red square over it
It will then ask if you want to add client.exe (as a pokerclient like duh?!), say Yes and it's done.

I use a HUD playing on FT, Cereus, ipoker, ect. But for a good promotion I just did a grind of 230,000+ hands in 6 weeks (375h playing time) on the cake network, through Fugu poker. I was playing 16 tables at a time NL100 and up to 13 of NL200 and everything worked out great. I did great without a HUD. The point is nobody else has a HUD either....get it.

On HUD compatible sites, the game just gets kicked up a notch. In my opinion it's more competitive and all the extra information adds whole new layers of complexity. Probably this overwhelms you? I'd give it a try though if I were you. It will lead to you thinking about the game in new ways.

I tried using HEM last night (the beta version) and it worked, no need for the Merge converter anymore